[fnordpiglet]

A doubling is, in base 2, an order of magnitude. I look at 5-10% improvements as marginal and doublings as significant especially when considering you’re dealing with something as complex as a beam formed point to point communication between two fast moving objects.

What bothers me more is the discussion of people doing video calls and phone calls on a flight. My neighbor on a recent flight from nyc to seattle jumped into a zoom call from the middle seat of a 100% full flight. It was obnoxious and distracting, and a harbinger for the total collapse of the last vestiges of any form of relaxation and decorum in the sky.